SAN FRANCISCO--Intel's forthcoming "Montecito" member of the Itanium processor family will consume 100 watts, a significant drop from the 130 watts of current models and an advantage in an era when ...

The role of the Itanium processor for Windows servers will be tightly defined in the "Longhorn" generation of Windows. Microsoft disclosed this month that when Longhorn server ships sometime in 2007, ...

In a world of survival of the fittest coupled with mutations, something always has to be the last of its kind. And so it is with the “Kittson” Itanium 9700 processors, which Intel quietly released ...

Intel’s Itanium chip is hanging by a thread, and after more than three years, the company is now shipping the next and possibly final version of the processor, which is code-named Kittson. The chip is ...

For years the pundits scoffed. Waiting for Merced, as Intel's next-generation Itanium processor was code-named, was like waiting for Godot. First it was going to ship in 1998, then in 1999, then in ...

When last we heard about Intel's Itanium server CPUs, it sounded like Intel was planning a slow, controlled slide into obsolescence for the processors and their accompanying architecture. Kittson, an ...

"We know we had a few delays over the years, but it's better to get this stuff right," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, introducing five new Itanium processors for ...

How much does it cost to keep Intel from dumping a chip that hardly anyone is buying? Well, if you're Hewlett Packard, that would be about $88 million per year. That's what came out on Monday, after a ...

Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first ...

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Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. Wednesday ended their 10-year partnership to co-develop the Itanium chip for server computers, following disappointing sales of the product. H-P's Itanium ...